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Did I mention Flotsam?https://kanutemusic.com/2018/10/01/did-i-mention-flotsam/
https://kanutemusic.com/2018/10/01/did-i-mention-flotsam/#respondMon, 01 Oct 2018 10:59:08 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/?p=247Continue reading →]]>It goes some way to sum up my state of mind when I admit that I completely forgot to mention HERE that we have a new album being released… last Friday. Sorry about that. In my defence, I do have a three year old who is insistent on not sleeping through the night any time soon which makes most cognitive processes an unholy struggle to say the least.

Anyway, hurrah! We have a new album out! And if you’d not seen this news elsewhere, on the plus side, you have missed out on our traditional twiddling and fiddling for months/years to get said album just so before release. Flotsam is a collection of new mixes, original versions and songs that had yet to find the right home even though we loved them. There was a very limited edition handmade wooden CD but as it is sold out within twelve house of going on pre-release we best not dwell on that. Ahem. Limited edition aside, this is a digital only release to avoid unnecessary plastic production and waste – and in that spirit, we are donating £1 per sale to Surfers Against Sewage. My daughter, having watched a Blue Peter special, has become what I can only describe as a tiny and furious environmental warrior – who ran a campaign at school to encourage children to take water bottles (she lured them in with the promise of stickers which every parent knows are basically crack for eight year olds) and avoid using the disposable cups provided, and who has banned me from buying the individually packed brioche because “it’s just wrong mummy!”, so this had been done in her honour and to give me maximum mummy points. Also, because it’s the right thing to do.

BUY THE ALBUM, SAVE THE WORLD

(please)

]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2018/10/01/did-i-mention-flotsam/feed/0rachaelkanuteI promise we weren’t ignoring you…https://kanutemusic.com/2017/01/26/i-promise-we-werent-ignoring-you/
https://kanutemusic.com/2017/01/26/i-promise-we-werent-ignoring-you/#respondThu, 26 Jan 2017 18:32:20 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/?p=238Continue reading →]]>So our minds are so very much more musical than practical, we inadvertently deleted our email account when we changed website address and forgot to make a new one. Ahem.

yes, we are stupid.

hurrah! Now we have a new email address! You can contact us at – info@kanutemusic.com

Sorry about that, if you tried to email we weren’t ignoring you!

indo

]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2017/01/26/i-promise-we-werent-ignoring-you/feed/0rachaelkanutea year on from Ursa Minor…https://kanutemusic.com/2015/03/29/a-year-on-from-ursa-minor/
https://kanutemusic.com/2015/03/29/a-year-on-from-ursa-minor/#respondSun, 29 Mar 2015 17:32:53 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/?p=233Continue reading →]]>Yesterday marked a whole year since the release of our second album, Ursa Minor. It’s unbelievable how quickly the time has gone but it seemed like an occasion worth marking. So to celebrate, I have set up a new YouTube channel recorded three acoustic videos at my home studio. Frosting, from Standing Room Only, and Ursa Minor and August Thursday from Ursa Minor itself. I hope you enjoy them – it was stressful but fun making them and we’re planning to make it a regular thing.

I have just moved house and my studio is in boxes. So right at the moment when I would normally head down to my studio, get the thoughts out of my head on to paper, pear it all down and down into a form not quite resembling where it came from and them in five years time that would be the first time you head of it – a song that I knew the roots of, but you probably couldn’t work out – this time, I can’t do that, so I have written a blog. Because sometimes you just need to get something out of your head.

The thing about Ade, is that he is one of the few people that was described exactly the same alive as dead. No editing of facts needed post mortem, no brushing under the carpet the unsavoury parts, no need to big up or play down. He was then and he remains now, one of the nicest, best people I ever met.

A few months ago I was out for lunch with my family and a serious faced man walked past our table, eyes fixed ahead, mouth slightly grim, two kids in tow, and he went and sat the other side of the pub. My mind tick, tick ticked away and the penny dropped too late. I leaned over and said to my husband. “See that bloke over there in the yellow t-shirt? I know him. He worked on my first album – lovely guy, used to have crazy hair.” He looked like him, but not like him. So much so that even though I knew it was Ade, that niggling bit of my brain that says no too often, stopped me going over and saying hello, just in case it was actually some big mistake and it wasn’t Ade at all. That would have been so embarrassing, I thought. But actually, that would have been my chance to say goodbye to one of the best people I ever met, because a couple of weeks ago, Ade died.

I saw it on facebook, where all life seems to unfold first these days. I saw the fact of his dead only but I knew instantly the how and the why as well. I just knew. A friend confirmed the awfulness of the waste, Ade had been struggling with depression and taken his own life on a Monday afternoon.

At first I thought I knew because of that almost encounter – because of the change in him – the not looking like himself of him. But then as it played on and on in my mind I realised I think I knew from before, the Ade I knew in my early twenties, the Ade who was so enthusiastic about music, who bounced when he was on stage, who was a bit too crazy with his arms. Because when he wasn’t talking, animated, so full of life, he had a look. He had a sadness. I didn’t even know I’d seen it – or maybe I chose to ignore it because fun, kind, weird, crazy Ade was SO much fun, so kind, so good with my little niece, so much more straightforward that the truth. I wasn’t a good friend.

I didn’t know Ade well. I didn’t know him recently. It has been a long time with so much water under the bridge. Whenever his name has come up in the past, the room has lit up – everyone loves Ade. Then the thoughts drift off again and we all get on with our lives. Now when his name comes up it will be different for me – I will be so sad. And I only scratched the surface of knowing him. This makes me all the more sad because I think if his death make ME this sad, me who had moved on with my life without him in it years ago, if I feel this way, what about those he truly left behind? The people who are living with the space he left not just the sadness of the fact of his death. I think of them and I just want to cry. I just want to do something. But there is nothing for me to do that can help, all I can do is empty my head on paper and be a better friend to those still here.

Rachael

]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2014/09/23/the-thing-about-ade/feed/0rachaelkanuteTweeters Tales interview…https://kanutemusic.com/2014/09/02/tweeters-tales-interview/
https://kanutemusic.com/2014/09/02/tweeters-tales-interview/#respondTue, 02 Sep 2014 18:25:34 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/2014/09/02/tweeters-tales-interview/If you like hearing musicians talk sometimes rather than do the music, please head over to the very excellent Tweeters Tales to hear Rachael do just that. Be warned, she’s a bit moan-y, and there’s mention of her teenage angst…

]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2014/09/02/tweeters-tales-interview/feed/0rachaelkanutetwitter interview…https://kanutemusic.com/2014/06/04/twitter-interview/
https://kanutemusic.com/2014/06/04/twitter-interview/#respondWed, 04 Jun 2014 09:56:34 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/2014/06/04/twitter-interview/This weekend Rachael is heading off to be interviewed for a series of podcasts about twitter folk. She may take her dog – incase anyone needs licking and/or sitting on.
]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2014/06/04/twitter-interview/feed/0rachaelkanutelast chance to listen again…https://kanutemusic.com/2014/04/18/last-chance-to-listen-again/
https://kanutemusic.com/2014/04/18/last-chance-to-listen-again/#respondFri, 18 Apr 2014 15:06:24 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/?p=226It’s down to the last day to listen again to Rachael’s interview on BBC Introducing Coventry and Warwickshire before they delete it forever.

]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2014/04/05/where-to-get-ursa-minor/feed/0rachaelkanutebbc introducing…https://kanutemusic.com/2014/04/05/bbc-introducing/
https://kanutemusic.com/2014/04/05/bbc-introducing/#respondSat, 05 Apr 2014 17:29:32 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/?p=218We’re being played on BBC Introducing, Coventry and Warwickshire tonight from 8pm and there will be a very lovely announcement. So it’s most definitely a good night to listen.
]]>https://kanutemusic.com/2014/04/05/bbc-introducing/feed/0rachaelkanuteURSA MINOR OUT NOW…https://kanutemusic.com/2014/03/28/ursa-minor-out-now/
https://kanutemusic.com/2014/03/28/ursa-minor-out-now/#commentsFri, 28 Mar 2014 08:25:26 +0000http://kanutemusic.com/?p=216Continue reading →]]>Well, it’s been a very long old road but here we are, Ursa Minor, our second studio album is now available.

It can be downloaded from Bandcamp, Amazon MP3 and iTunes. It is also available on limited edition CD from Bandcamp with TWO extra tracks, Beyond you (which happens to be Rob Overseer’s favourite) and Spent.

Thanks to everyone for bearing with us over the last two and a half years. It’s taken vastly longer that we thought it would but I think it’s been worth it. I love this album and I hope you will too.